A Regional Workshop on the “Challenges posed by a preventative criminal justice response to terrorism and Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTFs)”, will be organised by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) and the Terrorism Prevention Branch of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC/TPB), jointly with the European Union (EU), and in consultation with the United Nations Security Council’s Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED).
The event, to be held in Bucharest, on 8 and 9 October 2015, will be addressing, in particular, PAM Parliamentarians of the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region and Southern Europe.
The workshop will be hosted by the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of Romania, which is a key partner of this initiative.
The activity will be organised within the framework of the EU funded UNODC/TPB-EU joint initiative aimed at strengthening the legal regime against FTFs in the MENA region and South Eastern Europe. The initiative will address the complex and interrelated challenges posed to the criminal justice systems of Member States by the FTFs threat, including violent extremism, incitement to join terrorist groups, recruitment and training of FTFs, stand-alone terrorists and the use of Internet for terrorist purposes.
It also aims at supporting PAM Member States to meet the requirements set forth by resolutions 2170 (2014) and 2178 (2014) respectively adopted on 15 August and 24 September 2014 by the United Nations Security Council under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, and the relevant Resolution adopted by PAM at its 9th Plenary Session held in Monaco in February 2015